About Enrolled Agents
An IRS Enrolled Agent (EA) is a tax-only specialist licensed directly by the federal government after passing the three-part Special Enrollment Examination. Unlike CPAs and attorneys, whose credentials are issued by individual states, EAs may practice and represent taxpayers in every state and US territory.
The Enrolled Agent credential is the IRS’s highest non-attorney designation. To earn it, a candidate must pass three parts of the Special Enrollment Examination — covering individual taxation, business taxation, and representation, practice, and procedures — or qualify based on prior IRS employment of at least five years interpreting and applying the tax code. Enrolled Agents must complete 72 hours of continuing education every three years, including a mandatory two hours of ethics annually.
Because the EA license is issued by the federal government rather than by a state, an Enrolled Agent in any state may represent any taxpayer in any matter before the IRS. This portability matters most for taxpayers who have moved between states, taxpayers with multi-state business activity, and taxpayers facing IRS correspondence audits where the examiner is in a different state from the preparer.
The directory lists 140 EAs across 48 states. Use the state grid above to drill into your state, or read our full Enrolled Agent explainer and our EA-vs-CPA comparison.
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Long-tail searches this directory supports
Each state page for Enrolled Agents has its own URL, its own metadata, and its own credential-specific narrative — designed to surface for queries like “enrolled agent tax preparer in [state]”, “find a enrolled agent near me”, and “EA vs CPA [state] tax help.” The directory does not chase keywords; it organizes credential data the way taxpayers actually search.